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Atlantic and Arctic Could Be Open to Oil Drilling if Trump Gets His Way
In April 2017, Trump signed an Executive Order aimed at ending the ban on offshore drilling in certain areas. Smart Dissent painfully covered that here. In late June, Trump spoke again on the topic, claiming that progress is being made to make his "vision" a reality and sell our environment to the highest bidder.
The White House is making a bid to overturn the Obama administration’s five-year plan forbidding oil and gas exploration in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans and will examine opportunities to drill almost anywhere off the U.S. coast.
Fortunately, we can expect endless lawsuits attempting to slow down this destructive mission and off-shore drilling is not an attractive proposition for oil companies right now.
...as onshore oil and natural gas production has surged from horizontal drilling, helping to lower the price of petroleum, interest in offshore drilling has fallen. Royal Dutch Shell suspended drilling in the Arctic about two years ago.... The company said the result didn’t justify the massive risks and expense of drilling in the environmentally sensitive Arctic frontier.
This conversation is occurring at the same time we are seeing shocking photos of an enormous iceberg breaking away from Antarctica.
An iceberg about the size of the state of Delaware split off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf sometime between July 10 and July 12.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/massive-iceberg-breaks-off-from-antarctica